OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745364
PRIMO ELECTRIC COMPANY
ROSEDALE, MD·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED IN FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:00 p.m. on April18, 1989, Employee #1, a laborer-helper, and ployee #1 was on the roof applying pressure to the rope, fell through a skylight to a concrete floor, and was killed. Employee #2, a foreman, for Primo Electric Company started to remove an old sign from the face of the building. The bottom two screws were removed and the power was shut off by Employee #2 from a bucket truck. Realizing how heavy the sign w as, a metal chain was attached to two eye hooks on the top of the sign. Employee #1 went up onto the roof of the building and lowered a heavy rope borrowed from Heidler Roofing Company down to Employee #2 who was in the bucket truck where h e hooked it to the chain. Employee #2 went up onto the roof and secured the rope and returned to the bucket, then removed the other two screws from the sign. Em
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 39 Male
- Nature of injury
- Other (21)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Helpers, construction trades (865)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- Environmental factor
- OTHER (18)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.